Kesher Talk

Those wacky war reporters. An Australian reporter does a story about Iraqi kids getting killed and maimed playing with unexploded ordnance, and for visual effect poses the children next to dangerous missiles. From the transcript:

You want to show the children on there?
Gina Wilkinson: Yeah, that would be good. Yeah, if they don’t mind.
- (trans) You want them to stand over there to be filmed?
- (trans) Come on sweetie. What’s her name?
- Noona
- (trans) I'm worried about them.
- Sit. Sit on this.
- (trans) I'm worried about them.
- (trans) Sit on the edge.
Gina Wilkinson: Please God, don't let this thing explode now.
- ABC Camera Tape

She did several takes - You can watch the unedited tape yourself.

ABC, her employer, conceded that her behavior was "a serious error of judgement." Yup.

posted by Judith @ 9/29/2003 06:16:24 PM